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On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 17:18 +0100, james kilty wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 12:54 +0100, John Williams wrote:
>
> > Previously I was using Vnstat with some custom scripts I wrote to track
> > the pesky rolling 30day tracking Demon uses. That doesn't have facility
> > to differentiate schedules though.
> Dear John
> I was told over the phone that they would contact me to advise if there
> is any danger before there was any risk - or have they done that.
I would much rather try and monitor my usage locally than wait for them
to call when I am in imminent danger of being put into their "sin
bin" (128kbit for 30days if that "punishment" is still the normal
process)
If I have a local log I can also see when any heavy use is going to drop
off the 30 days and I gain some slack.
As an example of what I mean, here is the output from the script I
hacked together using vnstat as source.
===================================
subbass@subbass-desktop:~$ rdnm -l
Days 1-10 Days 11-20 Days 21-30
2299 7560 2509
4595 6680 1666
3849 5960 4700
2208 3293 7980
3119 1616 5332
702.85 11215 12181
4121 13023 3709
9405 11893 2243
8202 8810 1255
5640 2828 8744
Bandwidth usage breakdown
30 day ..... 167337.85 MiB
Todays ..... 426.01 MiB
combined ..... 167763.86 MiB
===================================
As can be seen above, I know that 8.7GB is about to fall off, if you
wait for them to contact oyu then you have no idea when any heavy days
would be about to clear.
I don't want to log into their usage tracker online daily, which isn't
as readable/detailed.
It should be possible to script vnstats output again to handle the
schedule, but its giving me headache trying to do it, my skills aren't
as good as I would like.
--
John Williams
My linux blog of notes and guides
http://subbass.blogspot.com/
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